Brick-drying kiln



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No. 295,026. PatenteddYlar. 1 188-4.

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ATENT BENJAMIN G. LOGKETT, JAMES FV. ENGLISH, AND JOHN-IV. MURPHEY, OF

ATLANTA,

GEORGIA.

BRICK-DRYING KILN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,026, dated March 11, 1834.

' Application tiled September 21, IP83. (No model i To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, BENJAMIN G. LOCKETT, JAMES W. ENcLIsn, and JOHN W. MURPHEY, citizens of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Brick-Dryin g Kilns; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as IO will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification. This invention relates to a brick-drying kiln in which moist fresh-made bricks can be rapidly and uniformly dried,without regard to the weather, before being placed in the burningkiln; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of flues and other devices for distributing heat, as hereinafter more fully set forth. I

' In the annexed drawings, Figure l is a horizontal section of our improved drying-kiln on the line '0 D, Fig. 2. Fig. 1 is a similar section on the line C D of Fig. 2*, representing a modification. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the kiln on the line A B, Fig. 1. Fig. 2 is a similar section on the line A B of the modification rep- 0 resented in Fig. 1. Figs. 3' and 3 represent front views of the kiln and its modification, respectively, both being alike. Figs. 4 and 4 are vertical cross-sections on the lines E F of Figs. 2 and 2, respectively. Fig. 5 is a verti- 3 5 cal cross-section of the hot-air fines on the line- G H of Fig. 2, looking from the front of the kiln to its back; and Fig. 5 is a vertical crosssection of the modification of the kiln 011 the line G II of Fig. 2, looking from the back to the front of the kiln.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The firing-box a projects out in front of the front wall of the drying-kiln, and is constructed of sufficient width to burn the necessary quantity ,of fuel on the grate Z). This firing-box is lined all around with fire-bricks, and is overarched with the same material. The fuel is introduced by an opening in front of the firingbox, that can be closed by a cast-1ron door which slides sidewise in a groove on an 1ron plate. Under the grate is arranged the usual ash-hole. The fire will have its natural draft backward to the smokest-ack q, and will pass through the overarched opening in the front 5 5 wall of the drying-kiln into the fire-box, in back of the front wall, entering the channel 0. The number of fire-boxes is entirely immaterial, and depends only on the general dimensions of the drying-kiln and the surface offloor to be heated, and may vary fromv a single one to any number. In the channel a (which either may beconstructed as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and

4, reaching across the entire width of the drying-kiln, and built with upright walls of firebricks,with an arch of the same material to cover it, or, as represented in Figs. 1", 2, 4i, and 5, divided into a certain but not limited number of sections, which spread gradually as they extend from the fire-boxes, and having a 0 flat arch of fire-bricks to cover) is produced an immense draft by the introduction of cold air through the different cold-air flues 71,which go partly direct into the channel 0, intersect-' ing the front wall of the kiln, or first enter the 7 cold-air chamber in through the walls of the fire-box, and from there through the openings 1', into the channel 0. The current of drafts so produced forces the heated air into the flues (l. fire-box is not limited, and may vary from five to eight each, more or less; but they should be placed as near as possible together, in order to heat every part of the surface of the floor to an equal degree. The length of these fines is of no influence, but should not extend farther than the air-current in the same remains heated. It is further immaterial whether they run straight, as represented in Fig. 1, or

are curved, as illustrated in the modification by Fig. 1. All the flues are built with plumb side walls, and are overarched with fire-bricks,

the spaces between the arches on-the upper surface being made level with clay, and a fiat layer of bricks laid in clay placed quite level 5 on top, making a perfect and smooth surface of the floor of the drying-kiln. The smoke and the hot air, after theyhave passed the fines d, are accumulated into the channels 6, which are constructed either as represented in Ice Fig. l or as in Fig. 1, according to the construction of the fines. These channels unite a The number of these lines to each 80 certain number of lines, so that some of them may be closed by a damper nearf in front of the entrance into the smoke-stack. This arrangement permits a partial use of the dryingkiln when only one or not all of the fire boxes are active. The side wall, 7c, of the dryingkiln and the roofing Z serve to keep the weather from the kiln. The rear of the kiln is closed by a movable plank partition, which will be taken out when entering or extracting the bricks from the kiln. The roofing is constructed in the common way, but arranged so as to be tight-closed up to the side walls during the progress of drying; or it may be provided with rolling-slat ventilators to be opened to allow the evaporation to escape. The fresh manufactured bricks are rolled directly from the brick-machine by hand-ears into the kiln after the back partition has been removed, and are laid either flat or edgewise, with a small space between them, on the heated floor. After the moisture from the bricks has escaped, the kiln will be closed and the bricks will remain in the kiln until they are dry enough to be placed into the burning-kiln, which is generally the casein from eight to ten hours. Then the ready-dried bricks will be taken out and the kiln refilled.

The most profitable dimensions of the sun face of the iloor of the drying-kiln'is about thirty feet in width by a length of one hundred feet; but any enlargement or reduction of those figures will not affect the usefulness of the drying-kiln.

'We are aware that prior to our invention brick-drying kilns have been constructed in which,,by the use of heat-fines, and other parts appearing in our invention, bricks, for the purpose of being burned afterward, have been dried. 'We therefore do not claim such construction, broadly; but

XVhat we do claim as our invention, and de'- sire t0 secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in a brick-drying kiln, of the fire-boxes a a, front hot-air space or spaces, a c, c0ld-air chambers or, having draft-openings h 1', rear hotair passages, c c c, disconnected from each other, the longitudinal fines (l d, and the chimney having valved 0penings f f f, communicating with the rear hotair passages and lines, whereby hot air is accumulated at the back end of any or all ol'said fines, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence oi'two witnesses.

BENJAMIN G. LOCKETT. JAMES W. ENGLISH. JOHN \V. MURPHEY.

Witnesses:

lnsr. E. LE0, E. I. Ramon. 

